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Rugby World Cup final referee Nigel Owens believes that citing and suspending players who dive in football would be one deterrent.

鈥淚f a player is found to be guilty, I don鈥檛 think a fine would make any difference, then you ban the player depending upon the seriousness of the offence.

鈥淐iting doesn鈥檛 stop the flow of the game, and I think it would be hugely beneficial. When a player does the dive, I think it鈥檚 very difficult for the referee to make a decision at that time.

鈥淚f you had the citing, it would be highlighted afterwards and they can look at it and say 鈥榬ight, this guy definitely has dived, and we鈥檒l deal with him accordingly鈥� and I think that would get rid of a lot of the problems.鈥�

The debate came about after Hull took a controversial lead against Crystal Palace after Robert Snodgrass had gone down in the penalty area, despite there appearing to be no contact from Scott Dann.

This clip is originally from 蜜芽传媒 606 with Jason Mohammad and John Hartson on Saturday, 10 December 2016.

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